pineapple

«pineapple» in Mova's school dictionary: a large tropical fruit with a rough, spiky brown skin… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a pineapple, pineapples; pineapple, uncountable as food)

meaning for a pupil

A pineapple is a large tropical fruit with a rough, spiky brown skin, sweet juicy yellow flesh and a crown of stiff green leaves on top. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and geography, pineapples grow on low plants in hot countries (not on trees and not on pines); each fruit is made of many small fruits joined together. In everyday life, people eat pineapple fresh, in juice, in tins and on pizza.

examples

• We cut the pineapple into chunks. tree →
• Pineapple juice is sweet and sharp. tree →
• Some people like pineapple on pizza. tree →
• Pineapples grow on small plants, not trees. tree →
• Twist off the leafy top of the pineapple. tree →
• A pineapple has a rough, spiky skin. tree →

note

Countable for whole fruits ("two pineapples"), uncountable for pieces ("some pineapple"). It is not a kind of apple and has nothing to do with pine trees; it got the name because it looks like a pine cone.

In the corpora

• A pineapple is a hundred or more tiny flowers grown together, and a strawberry wears its seeds on the outside.
• A headline shouted «MAYOR'S SHOCKING SECRET!» Zara read the article: he likes pineapple on pizza.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «pineapple» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.